Sentences with phrase «on schools and school systems»

She is clearly ill informed on schools and school systems, and it is equally clear that she does not care a lick to learn anything about them.

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

Classrooms at Disselboom primary school are equipped with SchoolVision, a lighting system developed by Philips that changes the atmosphere and ambience of a classroom depending on the type of lesson being taught.

«I think it's a shock to see the school system getting on board with the changing Ireland we live in and it becoming the «norm,» which helps the cause against bullying so much,» Ryder told INSIDER.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

From the driver's point of view, the cockpit is a pleasing combination of new and old, with the multi-screen infotainment system on the center stack but the central instrument cluster analog - style old - school.

On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

«Using machine learning to find a needle in a haystack is where computers can help us transcend our limitations,» says Professor Adam Pah from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern's Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

Beating out Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows in key aspects of school computer usage, Google's Chrome OS is the preferred operating system on the majority of school desktop computers.

If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

While the transition will take some getting used to, having solid systems in place in your home can help you ease the stress, and focus on the enjoyment of an exciting new school year.

The new emphasis on the extrovert ideal, she argues, is reflected everywhere — from the way we educate our kids in a school system increasingly skewed toward group work and participation, to the traits most commonly rewarded in the corporate world.

A Miami Herald series on abuses in the Florida juvenile justice system is a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School announced Wednesday.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

In the months and years to come, Hurricane Maria's impact on the economy, the energy system, schools, agriculture, and all facets of society will continue to be felt.

She is an active volunteer in her local school system, has served on the Board of Directors of the Southwestern Connecticut Girl Scout Council, and in 2010 was the recipient of the William J. Alcorn Leadership Award.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High Sschool bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High SchoolSchool.

For almost a half - hour after a school shooter dropped his assault - style rifle and escaped Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, police officers thought they were seeing his actions live on the school's security sschool shooter dropped his assault - style rifle and escaped Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, police officers thought they were seeing his actions live on the school's security sSchool, police officers thought they were seeing his actions live on the school's security sschool's security system.

NBC 6 went through the files, school by school, and found the school system is spending a majority of the bond money on renovating school buildings.

The documents show that Cruz was very much on the radar screen of mental health professionals and the Broward County school system, yet very little appears to have been done other than these evaluations.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

In the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced a vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systemOn Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systemon the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systems.

It also provides money to improve school security, strengthens the system of background checks on gun buyers, and provides some funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on gun violence.

In fact, our school system, as I already pointed out, rents space to a huge number of very diverse private concerns, including homeowner associations, clubs, and so on.

Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.

On the other hand, I think completing the move to the metric system is probably far more important right now in making us competi.tive, not to mention increasing magnet schools, de-emphasizing sports and ensuring that only those who want and are ready for children have them.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

And will the system of public funding for Christian schools — centred on the fact that such schools existed long before those established by any other authority in Britain — cease if the schools insist on retaining their Christian identity?

The security system at the school failed Schools need to spend less on sports and each school needs a full - time ARMED guard on location.

Through circuitous routes, the idea caught on among conservative Christians worried about the militant secularism promoted by the public schools, and mainly among evangelical Christians who, unlike Catholics, did not have a school system of their own.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe By Charles Glenn Cato Institute, 338 pages, $ 25.95 cloth, $ 15.95 paper A valuable contribution by the author of The Myth of the Common School and perhaps our leading authority on comparative education systems.

It nonetheless raised some disturbing ideas about our «we - are - a-Christian-community» slogans (since we were to apportion salary solely according to performance rather than also, say, on need) and about our endorsement of responsible family and church involvement (since the new system would tempt people financially to neglect these other responsibilities in order to work harder at school)

At the time Whitehead was writing Process and Reality idealist systems were under attack on methodological grounds, first by C. E. Moore as violating the prescriptions of common sense, then by the school of logical positivism represented chiefly by Schlick, Carnap, and Ayer.

Jung's system, like that of most schools of psychoanalysis, is based on the reality of the typical, the general, the past — what has already become and is already enregistered in our categories of thought.

I was too grateful for the traffic lights the «system» had installed on the corners of the busy streets my son had to navigate on his way to school, and for the school crossing guards the city government had hired to make his daily journey less dangerous, and for the fire inspectors who regularly visited his school to check for hazards, and so on.

I'd challenge Mr. Latif's viewpoints and suggest that NY Muslims become a peaceful and faithful people by worshipping on their holidays irrespective of what the public school system says.

The city's and school system's Muslim population has mushroomed to a level that is similar to the Jewish population, and it's unfair to make such a large number of Muslim students take a «sick day» on these important holidays.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

hmmmm like what people become in the lovely public school system with no focus on right and wrong?

It was an illusion of Horace Mann and the other reformers who shaped our educational system in conscious opposition to «sectarian» schools that a coherent «common» education could be provided by stressing only those convictions on which «men of good will» agreed.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

There are various ways in which the church has entered the lists on the side of humanity and fought for better health systems, schools, mental health programs, and the like.

I don't have to believe what you believe, just as you do not have to believe what I believe... all I ask is that we start allowing out children to grow up and make the decision for themselves; that religion be kept out the government and school systems and that I don't have to hear it on the street corner... if you don't want to hear us then don't let us hear you.